Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Gourmand   Listen
Gourmand

noun
1.
A person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess.  Synonyms: glutton, gourmandizer, trencherman.



Related search:
gourmandize


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Gourmand" Quotes from Famous Books



... Punch something of a gourmand, and each meal has to contain, besides its foundation of wheaten chaff and its piece de resistance of cracked maize, a flavouring of oats—say, three double handfuls—and a thorough sprinkling, well rubbed in, of bran. If the proportions are wrong, or any of the constituents ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... thought of yours to apply to PUNCHINELLO for information regarding Shaksperean readings. To your first question, "Was SHAKSPEARE'S RICHARD III a gourmand?" we reply: undoubtedly he was. By adopting what is obviously the correct reading of the passage—"Shadows to-night," etc., it will be seen that "DICKON" was occasionally a sufferer from ...
— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 12 , June 18,1870 • Various


Words linked to "Gourmand" :   glutton, eater, gourmandizer, feeder


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com